Yes, it’s a big deal about this prestigious sporting event to be staged in Ruston next week.
The 2012 edition of the Louisiana High School Athletic Association basketball finals will be held at the Thomas Assembly Center on the campus of Louisiana Tech University starting on Thursday and extending through Saturday.

Needless to say, it will have a major impact on the city, the university and Lincoln Parish.
Above all, it will be THE place to be for anyone who loves high school hoops.

Finals will be held in all six classifications for both boys and girls.

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After the pouring rain at the beginning of March, several parishes in Louisiana were flooded, and hundreds of people displaced.

However, Lincoln Parish banded together as a community to help those in need, and on top of all of the donated clothes, food and time, there were two entities in Lincoln Parish that stepped up to help our fellow Louisianans.

Shortly after the flooding began, David Abernathy, northern region’s disaster relief regional coordinator for Louisiana Baptist, was asked to not only take over the disaster relief for North Louisiana, but the whole state.

After the 911 skyjackers rammed their planes into our buildings, what did we do? We created an air marshal program. We recruited highly-trained armed individuals and asked them to blend in with ordinary air passengers.

You would only know who those air marshals were — get to see the air marshal in action — when someone jumps up and is running to the cockpit with their briefcase. The air marshal would be the one who puts a gun to his or her head and asks them to get on the floor.

A couple of weeks ago, area television weathermen were facing the real likelihood of having to wipe egg off their collective faces when they predicted that north Louisiana was about to be encased in a winter wonderland.

We rushed to the store and emptied the shelves of bread, milk, water and batteries and made sure our generators were gassed up and ready to go when the snow and ice encapsulated us.